O let me go, Voronezh, O return me:
You will drop me, Voronezh, or neglect me,
You will let fall me down or put me back, —
Voronezh — whim, Voronezh — raven, knife...
Пусти меня, отдай меня, Воронеж:
Уронишь ты меня иль проворонишь,
Ты выронишь меня или вернешь, —
Воронеж — блажь, Воронеж — ворон, нож...
«Once again, once again, / I’m for you / A star. / Woe to the sailor who sets / His ship on a wrong course / By a star: / He will break up on the rocks, On an underwater sandbar. / Woe then to you when you set / Your heart on a wrong course by me: / You will break up on the rocks...»
«Only we, blasting your three years of war / Through one swirl of the terrible trumpet, / Sing and shout, sing and shout, / Drunk with the charm of the truth / That the Government of the Terrestrial Globe / Has come into existence: / It is We. / Only we have fixed to our foreheads / T...»
«I was walking along an unfamiliar street, / And suddenly heard a cawing of crows, / And resonant lutes, and distant rumbling, / — Before me a streetcar flew. How I leapt to its platform / Was a riddle to me, / Even in the light of day / It left a fiery trail in the air. Rushing ahead...»
«I was walking down an unfamiliar street, when I suddenly heard crows croaking, the sound of a lute, and distant peals of thunder — a tram was flying past me. How I managed to jump on to its step was a mystery to me even in broad daylight it left behind a trail of fire in the air. It rushed on li...»